Chandigarh Jan 21 PTI The Punjab Police Friday recovered a grenade launcher with two compatible grenades 379 kg RDX nine detonators and two sets of timer devices from Gurdaspur thwarting a possible terror attack around the Republic Day a senior official saidBorder Range Inspector General of Police IGP Mohinish Chawla said the 40-mm Under Barrel Grenade Launcher UBGL that was recovered during the day could cover up to 150 meters and could be detrimental to the VVIP security according to an official statementThe recovery was made on the disclosure of Malkeet Singh a resident of village Gazikot in Gurdaspur who was arrested Thursday by the Gurdaspur Police based on a tip-off in a terror module and conspiracy case he saidThwarting a possible terrorist attack around the Republic Day the Punjab Police have recovered 40mm Under Barrel Grenade Launcher UBGL with two 40 mm compatible grenades 379 Kg RDX nine electrical detonators and two sets of timer devices for IEDs from Gurdaspur Chawla was quoted as saying in a statementThe consignment of explosives was sent from across the border by Pakistan-based International Sikh Youth Federation ISYF chief Lakhbir Singh Rode he addedDuring November-December 2021 the Gurdaspur Police had busted two terrorist modules controlled by the ISI of Pakistan and arrested four members of the modules besides recovering around 1 kg RDX six hand grenades one tiffin box IED three electrical detonators and two pistolsSSP Gurdaspur Nanak Singh said the role of Malkeet Singh in retrieval and delivery of fire armsexplosive consignments intended for ISYF terror module busted recently by the SBS Nagar Police was revealed during investigation PTI SUN TIR TIR

Chandigarh Dec 26 PTI The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday declared 15 more candidates for next years Punjab Assembly polls It is the fourth list of the party and with this the total number of candidates announced by it so far reached 73 Punjab has 117 Assembly seats The announcement was made by party leader Raghav Chadha on his Twitter handle From Rupnagar the party gave ticket to Dinesh Chadha Currently Amarjit Singh Sandoa is AAPs MLA from this constituency Sandoa in December 2020 had rejoined AAP a year and half after defecting to the ruling Congress According to the list Ranjit Singh Rana will contest from Bholath Inderjit Kaur from Nakodar Gurdhian Singh from Mukerian Karamvir Singh from Dasuya Jasvir Singh Gill from Urmur Lakhbir Singh from Fatehgarh Sahib and Tarunpreet Singh from Khanna Hakam Singh will contest from Raikot Devinder Singh from Dharamkot and Ashu Banger from Ferozepur Central Amandeep Singh will fight from Balluana Vijay Singla from Mansa Narinder Kaur from Sangrur and Kuljit Singh Randhawa from Dera Bassi PTI CHS VSD RDK RDK

Sangrur (Punjab) [India], October 20 (ANI): A man has been arrested over the possession of a .32 bore country-made pistol in the Lehragaga area in Punjab's Sangrur on Tuesday, the police said.

Sonipat (Haryana) [India], October 17 (ANI): Three accused in the Singhu Border incident, where the mutilated body of a man was found hanging at the site of farmer's protest, have been sent to six-day police custody by the Sonipat court on Sunday.

A second man has ‘surrendered’ in connection with the lynching of a 35-year-old Punjab resident at the farmer protest site in Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border. Narain Singh, who was taken into custody, is a Nihang Sikh like Sarabjit Singh, and also claimed Lakhbir Singh was killed as he had ‘desecrated’ the Sikh holy book. […]

New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday termed the Congress working Committee meeting as 'parivar bachao working committee', questioned if the opposition party stood with the "Talibani mindset" of the Singhu border killing.

Haryana [India], October 16 (ANI): Two more Nihangs have been detained by Haryana Police on Saturday in connection with the Singhu Border incident where a mutilated body was found hanging at the site of farmers' protest.

“A Nihang group, Nirvair Khalsa-Udna Dal, has admitted to killing a Dalit man at Singhu border on Friday for allegedly committing sacrilege. The mutilated body of Lakhbir Singh, a resident of the Cheema Khurd village in Tarn Taran in Punjab, was found near a farmers’ protest site at Kundli in Haryana’s Sonipat district on Friday. One of his hands and legs were chopped off, and he was tied to a metal barricade when the locals first spotted him.

New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): The accused in the Singhu border incident where a mutilated body was found hanging on Friday at the site of farmers' protest, has been sent to seven days police custody by the court on Saturday.

“A Nihang group, Nirvair Khalsa-Udna Dal, has admitted to killing a Dalit man at Singhu border on Friday for allegedly committing sacrilege. The mutilated body of Lakhbir Singh, a resident of the Cheema Khurd village in Tarn Taran in Punjab, was found near a farmers’ protest site at Kundli in Haryana’s Sonipat district on Friday. One of his hands and legs were chopped off, and he was tied to a metal barricade when the locals first spotted him.